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Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


* House Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.


Anyway, it's free to claim until Monday. Get it before then and it's
yours to keep forever; after that, you'll have to spend cash.


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Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!

* House Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.

Anyway, it's free to claim until Monday. Get it before then and it's
yours to keep forever; after that, you'll have to spend cash.

I'd prefer they made a game called House Squatter, where you play a gang member/undercover cop/ex-marine who goes into people's homes after his girlfriend befriends them like a hooker, and he slowly takes over the
house, pushing the lawful owner out, drawing graffiti all over the walls
and running the heat at top level with all the doors thrown wide like a
wild Hell's Angels party. That's what I used to think House Flipping
referred to, like flipping the lawful owner out and making it yours for
your gang of hoodlums. Who wants to play a game about rerunning sink
pipes and electrical wires? This would be more fun. It could include top
notch graffiti totally intricate on the walls next to the in room sauna
and master bedroom with designer silk sheets.
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On Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:19:35 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> wrote:

Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!

* House Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.

Anyway, it's free to claim until Monday. Get it before then and it's
yours to keep forever; after that, you'll have to spend cash.

*---

Added to the number! Is that how I say it? :-)

-pw
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Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!

* House Flipper

I read that title and briefly wondered exactly how one keeps a dolphin
in a house.

Xocyll
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On Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:14:51 -0400, Xocyll <[email protected]> said this
thing:

Spalls Hurgenson <[email protected]> looked up from reading the >entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

* House Flipper

I read that title and briefly wondered exactly how one keeps a dolphin
in a house.

Lots of free fish and a promise not to follow-up on any rape-charges?
(dolphins can get extremely aggressive when aroused... and aren't that
picky about the species of their partners ;-)

I vaguely seem to recall somebody built a house that had a pool with
access to the ocean so that dolphins could come visit. Or maybe it was
just a concept of a house? I really don't remember any details.
Forgetting the problem of horny dolphins, I'd still worry about mold
growth and salt-water corrision. Although that probably says a lot
about the excessive practicality of my particular mind-set, ;-)


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On 4/4/2026 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!

* House Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.

I already am very stressed about my own house's needed repairs, last
thing I want is to do it in a game.
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Justisaur <[email protected]> wrote at 16:18 this Monday (GMT):

On 4/4/2026 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

Hey, a not-entirely-awful game!


* House Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/613100/House_Flipper/
Ultimately, this is another workplace-sim; take on the
role of somebody who buys distressed properties, fixes them
up, then sells them for profit. Janky as most other games
in the genre (and sort of tedious in the initial stages),
there is a certain joy of furnishing these houses to your
liking (sort of like in "The Sims"). But it's not really
the sort of game that keeps me engaged for very long.

I already am very stressed about my own house's needed repairs, last
thing I want is to do it in a game.

Maybe its like exposure therapy then?
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